Advantage 54 – Female and male principles in balance

Excerpt from the book »Gradido – Natural Economy of Life«

»Cultures change on account of their wounded archetypes or they die.«

– Bernard A. Lietaer

Belgian financial expert and author

Anyone who has studied the C. G Jung’s archetype theory also knows the archetype of the Great Mother. The Great Mother stands for the primeval female: she stands for the primeval mother of all being, for Mother Earth, for being provided for and protected. She looks after her children and ensures that there is enough for all.

Several thousand years of patriarchy have suppressed the archetype of the Great Mother more and more and finally made it almost vanish. In the outside world we recognise this in the fact that the values of the Great Mother no longer apply very much and that professions that incorporate her qualities, for example social professions, are not particularly well paid. Besides, we see this factin the disastrous damage we have afflicted on our Mother Earth.

The Natural Economy of Life for worldwide prosperity and peace in harmony with nature honours the Great Mother again. »Worldwide prosperity and peace« means security and being provided for and this state is achieved »in harmony with nature«, in harmony with the Great Mother.

Worldwide prosperity for all naturally includes equality of the sexes. The natural differences of the sexes are appreciated and honoured. It is not a question of enforced conformity. Just as every person has their very own qualities, their personal strengths, their talents, the two sexes also have their very specific characteristics, their gender-related strengths, their talents. Only through their differences does the attraction exercised by women on men and vice versa come into being.

The use of these wonderful qualities to construct differences in rank can only be explained by deficiency thinking, the illusion that there is not enough there for everybody.